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. | i | i I 1 I , j SIR MARTIN AN AMERICAN AGAIN LINES OF DESCENT OF A HORSE WHICH PLAYED A GREAT PART IN RACING HERE AND ABROAD AND HAS RETURNED FOR STUD SERVICE IN HIS NATIVE LAND By EXILE Sir Martin is returned to the United States, and his return to the land of hi.s birth is of far-reaching importance. Mr. Madden is des;*ring of hearty congratulations for having effected the purchase of a horse in every way fitted to benefit the bloodstock interests of this country. Realizing the sands of time were running low for the Futurity winner, Ogden, Mr. Madden cast sbout him in a praiseworthy endeavor to find one worthy to fill old Ogdens place, and choice fell on one of his earlier loves, Ogdens son. Sir Martin. As a two-year-old in 1908 Sir Martin won the National Stallion Stakes. Great American Slakes, Great Trial Stakes, Double Event, easily beating Helmet by four lengths; Saratoga Special, but was beaten by Maskette, after a most unsatisfacory race, for the Futurity. In the running of the Flatbush Stakes, however. Sir Martin had complete revenge, easily turning the tables on the daughter of Disguise. Mr. L. Winans, becoming enamored of the colts merits, purchased him for racing abroad for some too, 000. Sir Martin was sent across to England, where the following year, as early as May 12. he, at Newmarket, won the Wednesday Welter Handicap. Starting favorite for the Derby, Sir Martin fell in a collision with Bayardo rounding Tattenham corner, fortunately escaping injury, and was next seen out at Ascot taking part in the Royal Hunt Cup, won by Dark Ronald. Sir Martin next essayed a trip to France, having to strike his colors to Biniou in the Grand Prix, Trouville Deauville. Back ones more in England, Sir Martin beat Mr. Belmonts Priseillian for the Challenge Stakes ev.market, in Cesarewitch week, and after this ran third to Christmas Daisy for the Cambridgeshire, and v.ound up his three-year-old season by winning the Durham Stakes of £1,000. The following year, as a four-year-old. Sir Martin mu.-t have been quite at his b?st when he defeated Bachelors Hope, Louviers and others for the Coronation Cup at Epsom, but afterward the colt seems to have trained off, as he made no show in the Ascot Gold Cup. won that year by Bayardo. As a five-year-old all efforts to bring Sir Martin back to winning form proved unavailing. He virtually broke down after a wonderful trial for the City and Suburban Handicap. No better luck awaited him in 1912, but as a seven-year-old Sir Martin won one race, his last, the Ellesmere Handicap at Manchester in late November. The year 1914 found Sir Martin advertised to stand for service at "Lordship as a stallion, and he is already the sire of win ncrs. among them the two-year-old filly Hard-bake, winner of three races la.-t year. What does the pedigre? of Sir Martin teli us in regard to his continued success as a sire. Lady Sterling, his dam. and dam also of the champion three-year-old of 1919, Sir Barton, .-tamps her offspring with her own chestnut Hanover coloring, even though Sir Martins sire. Ogden. is a brown. Sir Martin, unlike so many of the progeny of Ogden. came early to hand, something most essential in racing as conducted in this country, and he must also be a horse of unusual constitution and vitality, as witness his early successful racing in England when not yet six months ashore. The return of Sir Martin, from my viewpoint, is most fortunate, and a really good thing for the horse breeding interests of this country. Clean as a pin in all other pedigree respects. Sir Martins Hanover cross now bars him from registration in the English General Stud Book. Too bad an exception cannot be made in the case of Hanover, but so it is, and must be endured, with blame attaching to none, for the English know that if the ban were lifted for Hanover the rest would raise the Roderick cry of "come one come all, and this is not to he even thought of. No matter, Sir Martin has found sanctuary in his birthplace, where his Hanover cross is no stigma and his Vandal blood no bar. Comparatively few horses, to my knowledge, have been bred, as is Sir Martin, on the Matchem to Herod plan of mating; such a one. however, is Young Melbourne, the maker, together with his sons, of the fortunes of the Maid of Masham family, of which family also Sir Martin is a member; also Darebin, sire of the dams of Commando, Goldsmith and Africander, as is Spendthrift, grandsire of Fair Play; Plebeian, winner of his only start, the Middle Park Plate, fcnd sire of the dams of Matchmaker. Dean Swift and St. Frusquin ; the Derby and St. Leger winner Sir Visto; Finasseur. winner of the Grand Prix de Paris and Prix du Jockey Club; Pretty Pollys conqueror. Bachelors Button, and in the old days Melbourne, the main connecting link between Matchem, past and present. On account of all this, one is left wondering why the plan of mating Herod mares with Matchem sires is not more frequently put into practice. Strange as it may seem, not one drop of the predominant strain of Galopin appears in Sir Martins pedigree. The St. Simon-Melbourne affinity is proved. For this reason mares of Galopin descent, or mares showing the blood of St. Simon close Of in their pedigrees, should prove the best of mates for Sir Martin. Dont you know it is a positive relief to come across a pedigree such as is presented by Sir Martin, convinced as I am that the outcross and out-bred horses are the making of the whole horse breeding structure? 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